The Political Art of Patience: Adivasi Resistance in India

Title: The Political Art of Patience: Adivasi Resistance in India
Creator: Johnston, Caleb
Date: 2012
Subject: resistance; state; social movement
Identifier: doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00967.x; issn:0066-4812
Source: Original source
Is Part Of: Antipode
Publisher: Wiley
Abstract: Abstract: This article documents the emergence of the Denotified Rights Action Group (DNG‐RAG), a national social movement orchestrated to assert the citizenship rights of adivasi (indigenous) populations in India. It assesses the movement's efforts to engage the central Indian government in meaningful dialogue to accommodate the inclusion of marginalized adivasis in the democratic politics of the nation. In doing so, the DNT‐RAG reasserts the primacy of the Indian state as the principal engine driving the project of nation building, and as such, the site that activists target to further an agenda of equitable development and democratic rights for those known as India's Denotified Tribes.
Bibliographic Citation: Johnston, Caleb. (2012). 'The Political Art of Patience: Adivasi Resistance in India'. Antipode, 44(4), pp. 1268-1286.
Extent: Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 1268-1286
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Type: journal-article
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